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1717913

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England who have unmet care needs; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure those care needs are met.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	26174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing individuals’ care and support needs and, where eligible, for meeting those needs. Where individuals do not meet the eligibility threshold, they can get support from their local authorities in making their own arrangements for care services, as set out in the Care Act 2014.</p><p>We recognise that some people still experience challenges in accessing the care and support they need, when they need it. That is why ensuring that people find adult social care fair and accessible is one of the three main objectives of our 10-year reform vision for adult social care. To achieve this vision, we are supporting local authorities to address workforce pressures, drive improvements in their local area, and better streamline their assessment processes.</p><p>To support this, the Government has made available up to £8.6 billion in additional funding over the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25, to support adult social care and discharge. This includes up to £1.5 billion of additional grant funding for adult social care for 2024/25, compared to 2023/24, alongside a 2% increase to the adult social care precept for local authorities with social care responsibilities, uptake of which will generate a further £609 million in 2024/25. In addition, the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund, worth almost £2 billion over two years, is designed to support increased adult social care capacity, improve market sustainability, and enable local authorities to make improvements to adult social care services.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 17/05/2024 08:18:03 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1698907

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of her policies on social care on (a) staff recruitment and retention and (b) service user outcomes.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	20683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Preliminary findings for the Department's workforce reform programme have indicated that workers with multiple positive employment factors, including increasing access to training and qualifications, were more likely to stay in employment. Planned evaluation of the reforms will aim to measure the impact on intention to leave, and actual turnover, along with other outcomes.</p><p>We anticipate benefits from the workforce reform programme will include a reduction in staff turnover, improved quality of care from a better trained and more stable workforce, increased workforce productivity, and an increase in efficiency savings for social care providers as they reduce the amount of retraining and recruitment needed. These all contribute to our wider goals of improvements in the quality-of-care provision and improved access to care.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/04/2024 08:28:23 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1696863

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to support local authorities to deliver adult social care.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Mark Eastwood
uin	19217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Through the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25, we are providing over £1.5 billion in additional grant for social care compared to 2023-24. This is part of an above-inflation increase in Core Spending Power for local government from 2023-24 of up to £4.5 billion, or 7.5% in cash terms.</p><p>Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare grouped question UIN 19216 question first answered 26/03/2024 13:57:59 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4807 label Biography information for Mark Eastwood

1686026

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking with local authorities to increase levels of social care provision.
tabling member constituency	Tiverton and Honiton
tabling member printed	Richard Foord
uin	12214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market and deliver a range of care and support services to meet the diverse needs of local people. To support with this, the Government has made a total of nearly £2 billion available to local authorities over two years through the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF) and MSIF Workforce Fund. Both are designed to support increased adult social care capacity, and support local authorities to make improvements to adult social care services.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/02/2024 12:58:45 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4942 label Biography information for Richard Foord

1672719

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations she has received on establishing a social care council.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	3410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>My officials and myself enjoy strong engagement with sector representatives and experts as we develop policy and deliver for the social care sector. We receive representations on a number of issues including on ideas for forums to hear from the social care workforce and shape policy, most recently on establishing a social care council, which my officials are following up on.</p><p> </p><p>We already engage workforce representatives on the creation, development, and implementation of our ambitious workforce reforms. Most recently, this includes co-developing a new career structure for care workers so that all staff can build their careers and are recognised for their skills, and one that reflects the realities of providing adult social care.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/11/2023 14:45:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1669670

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring local authorities to use the same model for the commissioning of social care services.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	1678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>Under the Care Act, local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market to ensure a diverse range of high-quality person-centred care and ensure that support services are provided to meet the needs of the local population. We recognise that this is challenging, and the Government intends to develop a set of national commissioning standards, to set clear expectations of what good commissioning looks like and to drive greater consistency across the country. We are also investing in a new training offer for senior commissioners, to enhance strategic leadership capability and ensure they have the skills they need to shape their markets well. <br> <br> We recently published the Market Sustainability Insights Report, which summaries some of the approaches local authorities in England are taking to building sustainable and innovative care markets. It is designed to be a supportive tool for local authority commissioners and it is available at the following link:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-market-sustainability-plans-insights-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-market-sustainability-plans-insights-report</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 20/11/2023 12:14:53 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1668874

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to increase the levels of English language proficiency required to provide social care services.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	1106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>Care providers have a responsibility to ensure their chosen candidates have the right skills to work in care. As part of this, they should assess a candidate’s English language proficiency at the interview stage of the recruitment process. This applies to both candidates from overseas who they will be offering sponsorship to, and candidates already in the UK, if English is not their first language.</p><p>For staff who are recruited from overseas, English language proficiency requirements are set by the Home Office, as a condition to qualifying for a Skilled worker visa, including care workers and senior care workers on the Health and Care Worker visa. Individuals from overseas must be able to prove they can speak, read, write and understand English to at least level B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) scale. The framework can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale" target="_blank">https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 19/12/2023 15:52:51 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord